Edit Post Template or Redirect Featured Image To Another Page

I'm using Twenty Eleven's showcase template on my homepage with the featured post slider as a photo slider. Obviously, when one of the images is clicked, the visitor is taken to the relevant blog post. I'm not happy with the template of the post pages, as I want it to look more like any other static page with the widgets and same layout. Is there a way to change this?

If there's not, is there a way to redirect it so that when a featured image is clicked on, the visitor is taken to another static page rather than the related blog post?

But you'll never be able to make the posts exactly like static pages, because 2011 cannot display a sidebar on the single post view.
Besides, my understanding is that you don't really want these posts anyway: you only created them in order to make the slider show up. So I would suggest you try the Stay theme: its slider links to static pages instead of posts.http://staydemo.wordpress.com/

mrdirby, I would do that, but then I'd have those widgets displayed at the bottom of my front page as well, and I don't want that.

Justpi, that'll do for now! I don't want to change theme as everything else within the theme is pretty much perfect for my needs, it's just trying to control this slider is turning out to be a pain in the ass - as you've probably noticed by now..

That would target those widgets on the homepage only and your sidebar would be ok. I'm not sure exactly what the selector for the homepage widgets is. On the demo site is is .widgetarea, but if you can look yourself you can see it.